Appreciation of Pope St. Pius X by Marcel de Corte in 1964 — “The threat posed to man by the modern world is aimed above all at the priest”

Very Topical Considerations on the Life, Character and Thought of Saint Pius X

 

Marcel De Corte

Itinéraires, No. 87 | November 1964 

 

I HAVE JUST READ a few biographies of Saint Pius X. The marvellous ascent! From the humble seed of vocation planted by the Spirit in the soul of this little peasant to his constant concern for the priests entrusted to his care as bishop and pope, his whole life was organized around the defense and illustration of the sacred, indelible character of the priesthood, without which the called could never continue the work of redemption. More than any other successor of Peter, Saint Pius X saw, felt and understood that the threat posed to man by the modern world is aimed above all at the priest.

To Hand on What Has Been Received? The Mission and Challenges of the SSPX in Our Times

A guest article by Charles Bradshaw.

The SSPX’s recent pilgrimage to Rome has been the cause of some media attention not least because of mounting expectations regarding future Episcopal Consecrations. The inevitable skeletons have come out of the cupboard again alongside those who claim to have insight into just about everything Archbishop Lefebvre did or didn’t do. However, whilst the future consecrations remain a vitally important and pressing issue, what has been overlooked is how the Society of St Pius X is meeting its own future and how she is handing down her “management” to a new generation.

The Past of Leo XIV - Mere Catholicity: the Prosper Grech-Prevost-Müller Connection

by Serre Verweij

for Rorate Cæli

The year 2012 seems to be a century ago. It was not the year the world ended, instead it was the last year where Pope Benedict XVI led the Catholic Church. He was no Pope Pius XIII, no traditionalist. But he was clear on ethical matters, opposed the radical modernists, tried to respect traditionalists, was supportive of more pro-traditional cardinals, tried to makes the Novus Ordo more reverent. 

Dom Guéranger’s "Liturgical Institutions" Published for the First Time in English

The ongoing devastation inflicted upon the sacred liturgy is by no means unique to our time. Since the earliest days of the Church, the liturgy has suffered from the attacks of heresy, schism, and human caprice. Through the ages—whether from the blasphemous Vigilantius, the radical Waldensians of the Middle Ages, the Protestant reformers of the sixteenth century, or the rationalist infiltrators of the Enlightenment—there has always been a persistent, corrosive impulse to undermine, distort, or dilute the sacred rites entrusted to the Church.

In the nineteenth century, Dom Prosper Guéranger (1805–1875), the abbot of Solesmes and founding father of the modern liturgical movement, stood resolutely against a virulent strain of this anti-liturgical spirit.

NEWMAN AS DOCTOR - by Fr. Richard Cipolla

When the blogmaster (I suppose there is such a word) of Rorate Caeli, who is a personal friend of some years now, wrote to me recently to ask, with some astonishment on his part, why I had not written an article for publication immediately after the announcement by Pope Leo XIV that St. John Henry Newman was declared a Doctor of the Church, I replied that despite my love for Newman, I could not respond at once, for I needed time to think about not merely the declaration itself but also what this means for the Church today, as she (not it) seems to be emerging, Deo gratias, from the dark years after the Second Vatican Council that were marked by iconoclasm, denial of the Catholic Tradition and worst of all--sentimentality, the acid of religion.

"The Holy Father Received This Morning in Audience... Fr. James Martin, SJ"

 From today's Bollettino:

Il Santo Padre ha ricevuto questa mattina in Udienza: